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At 12 years old you feel adventurous and curious and independent. You feel unstoppable. You feel invincible. You don’t worry about the things that many young children and girls have experienced at the hands of ISIS. The Safe House we are partnering to operate in Kurdistan, Iraq has continued to...

The nation of Myanmar is 90% Buddhist, and Christians there are often mocked, threatened and persecuted. However, the harvest is ripe, and the need for courageous spiritual leaders and missionaries is great. We believe the most effective missionaries are local churches and bodies of believers, because of their familiarity with…

The Safe House we are partnering with in Kurdistan, Iraq, has its first residents! We had the opportunity to move a young woman named Hana and her son into the home a few months ago, and she was able to share her story with us. Now, we want to share…

Imagine you are walking down a narrow street. You hear the sound of an engine behind you, so you step to the side just in time for a retro-style car to drive by. As it disappears around a corner, you hear another, more unfamiliar sound behind you. You turn to…

Even though the Chinese church is growing rapidly, heavy government restrictions are forcing it to remain underground and believers to meet in secret. These restrictions have increased in the last year, isolating Chinese pastors even more. This difficulty, combined with an estimated 10,000 believers for every one trained pastor, puts…

The Bible is the number one best-selling book of all time. In America, churches are often full of them, schools and libraries stock them, and even hotel rooms often have one sitting in a drawer somewhere. Countless lives have been changed by the Word of God, whether someone intentionally reads…

* Below is a true story from a young woman named Shirrine who is mothering the baby of an ISIS soldier. Shirrine is the cousin of Sazan, who’s story was shared in our September letter. Shirrine’s story is very similar to her cousin’s, and the only details changed in this…

In the Middle East alone, there are more than 1.6 billion Muslims who have never heard the loving and life changing Gospel of Jesus. For this reason, World Compassion is committed to creating and facilitating a religious safe haven for Christians, fighting for Christians to remain in the Kurdish region...

World Compassion is committed to bringing the Gospel to the outermost parts of the world - nations that have limited to no access to the Word of God. This month we are excited about continuing to partner with our contact in Iran who is helping to operate and coordinate the...

*Below is a true story from a young Yazidi woman named Sazan. Sazan was trafficked and a former sex slave to ISIS soldiers. She has communicated her story to the director of the Safe House that World Compassion is helping to operate in Kurdistan, Iraq. Aside from translating, the only...

*UPDATE: the city of Mosul has since been liberated from ISIS control on Sunday, July 9th, 2017. Iraqi forces and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared the city free from the grip of ISIS after three years. ___________ Above, two young boys comfort each other after seeing the collapse of their...

Enslaved and Held Captive by ISIS Mothers. Young women. And girls have become slaves as a result of ISIS and their extreme interpretation of Islam. This is not just a label, it’s real bondage - human beings as objects to be bought and sold like property. They are forced to...

Can you imagine what it would be like to be handed a copy of the story of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the moment you stepped foot into a new country? Gets off train. Greeted by locals. Handed copy of the Story of Jesus. Gets luggage. Christian or non-Christian,...

On the Front Lines There are times when our mission to reach countries hostile to the gospel leads us to be the first on the ground in cities like Khamti. A small village in the northern part of Myanmar in a country that is 90% Buddhist, Khamti is far from...

New Doorways In January of this year, God opened a doorway for our organization in Aleppo. Our team is partnering with churches and carrying out distributions of aid to hundreds of families both Muslim and Christian inside the city. Aid is being given out from the hands of believers and…

Millions of men, women and children’s lives have been interrupted, not by choice but by force. Mothers have been robbed of the daily routine of making a home for their children, and fathers have lost the opportunity to provide food and a safe environment for their family. Children lack proper…

On January 27th the people of China began a week-long celebration of the Chinese New Year. It’s a time of festivals when people return to their hometowns and reconnect with family – setting off fireworks, decorating with red lanterns, exchanging gifts and attending lion and dragon dances. It’s also a…

For eight years, World Compassion and our partners have supported a pastor in Myanmar with a passion and vision to reach his nation for Christ- and this year we are seeing that vision take incredible new ground in the country. Eight years ago when our team met Pastor Tun Baw…

Typically we focus on one project or country each month, but as we round out another year, we want to highlight two of the regions you have helped make a substantial impact in throughout 2016: The Middle East and China. Iraq: The Church in the Middle East is in the…

Over 1 million Syrian children have fled their war-torn country and live in poverty and constant need. Many of them have gone without education, some for as many as five years, and aid and outreach have struggled to address this growing issue. These children have lost their futures. But Christ...

Although the crisis in the Middle East has almost become an afterthought in our world today, the difficulties remain and have in cases amplified for thousands of families in Iraq. It’s estimated that there are over 1 million school-aged girls and boys who are currently displaced in Iraq. Roughly 70…

We consider it such an honor to work with the underground pastors and network leaders in China. It’s humbling to see what the Lord has built through these brave men and women inside the underground church. Possibly the largest church in the world, yet still under oppression, they work to…

Under the cover of darkness our team hurriedly entered the facility in China in preparation for the two-day pastors and leadership conference hosted by World Compassion. This specific city of nearly 30 million people, has a network of believers standing 150,000 strong in the underground church. Their top 50 leaders…

Imagine feeling like you live on an island, isolated from others because of the persecution you are enduring. This is how our brothers and sisters in Iran feel. Cut off from the rest of Christianity, they daily risk their lives when they act on their faith and share a message…